Original artwork, not a still
Mostly Harmless ‧ 1992
He hadn’t had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line measures today's misery against the worst benchmark imaginable, the destruction of the planet. Comparing a bad day with that catastrophe makes the present trouble sound enormous, while the sheer scale of the comparison gives the sentence a wry, exaggerated edge.
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